When I reply to an email that has included my kids email accounts as well as my own, Mail will decide to make the reply 'From' one of their accounts instead of mine?
Why is this and how do I correct it so when I reply it is from me, not one of them?
Typically, Apple Mail (and just about every other email program I've used) will use the address that the mail was sent to as the address in the reply. You can click on the "From" dropdown and choose the address you really want to use.
Thanks for your response. It just seems odd that I'm replying from my email address/inbox and it takes whichever address (sometimes not my address) is first and puts it in the 'From' field.
I guess there is not a way around that but I was hoping there was.
I'm not sure I've got the picture. When I toggle the triangle on the left of the Inbox I get a list of the individual mailboxes, one for each account.
When I go to one of those inboxes I click on a message or open a message and hit reply. The message automatically uses the address from the mailbox I'm in.
Are you saying your mail program isn't working that way?
Once I've read an email that has been addressed to my account, my daughter's, and my son's, I hit 'Reply'.
The account that is listed FIRST in the address line of the sender is always chosen by Mail as the account the new Reply email is from.
For example: I receive a new email and the 'To' field reads Acct. 2, Acct. 3, Acct. 1.
I hit 'Reply' and it automatically puts Acct. 2 in the 'From' field even though I'm using Acct. 1.
I'd like it to always use Acct. 1 when I reply to an email. An additional reply has come from the original sender a few times and gone to the other account when I have not caught this.
This is a repost of what I posted last week and is similar:
Hi, here is another person this has been happening to me between my Apple account & my wife's email only account. My situation & preference information is same as zentra's & Dan's....
Recently I was at a Apple store (One To One) and they also said they never heard of it but when I mentioned to a few of my Mac friends and they have it also. It is now happening almost daily with my wife retired & home using the Mac and it is irritating her when her friends reply to me
Gene
Additional info - I have 3 accounts within the Mailbox, to the left with triangles, mine is 1st, my wife's email only account is #2 and a Verizon mail account 3rd (used for web surfing, subscriptions, web shopping etc). Many times she will send out a email to her friends via reply that is in her email account ONLY and it selects my account and therefore they will reply to me!
We try to check the drop down dialogue box but not always successful when answering numerous emails. I have researched it and can find NO pattern and it is extremely annoying as it wasn't always this way until we noticed it about 12 months ago. Again the Genius folks at 2 different Apple stores just look at me and say it doesn't happen!
Quick update - after reading Dan's email, my son & I went and specifically tested his point - the 1st name mentioned is the one it will select, in every reply / reply all email situations and he is correct.
OK, sorry for not understanding. I don't share my Mail program with other users, they have their own user account and since my Mail program doesn't have an account for a second recipient it doesn't make this mistake. I'm just guessing your Mail program is just selecting the first account on the list of accounts in your preferences or something like that, when it has multiple accounts of addresses in the same Mail program.
I suppose this is a bug that might escape notice or have a low priority because so many people set up a multiple user OS with different user accounts that only have their own email account information for mail to work with.
Doing things the way you are working means a shared Address Book, To Do lists and other mixing of data. Also, changes made by one user affect all the other users because they are all using the same preferences, etc.
I don't have a resolution in mind other than to suggest different email programs like Thunderbird for different users. I can understand why that wouldn't be satisfactory for your setup though.
